Cornwall

CORNWALL — Established in its role as an animal rescue resource for the area, The Little Guild is searching for more land space on which to build to provide expanded service for its furry clients and their future owners.

“We are looking for 3 to 5 flat, dry acres,” Little Guild Director Abigail Cusick said during a conversation on Friday, Feb.15. A new location and building will “significantly increase the number of dogs and cats we can save,” she added. Their present size allows 12 staff and 100 active volunteers to assist with housing 16 dogs and 25...

Cornwall

CORNWALL — Ian Ridgway, a student speaker at the June 15 eighth-grade promotion ceremony for the class of 2011, compared his nine years at Cornwall Consolidated School to a Major League baseball career.
He talked about each grade as a baseball season. His teachers were his coaches. He spoke of how he and his classmates learned to play as a team.
He recalled his first day of kindergarten with diminutive teacher Darleene Wadhams.
“I will always remember thinking, ‘Coach Wadhams, how did you get to be so tall?’” Ian said.

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CORNWALL — Cornwall Historical Society’s new exhibit answers the question, “Where do babies come from?”
In Cornwall, between 1923 and 1978, the answer would have been Dr. Brad Walker. Articles and letters at the Cornwall Historical Society record that Dr. Walker delivered a lot of babies — 800 by some accounts, an impressive 6,000 by others.
On Friday, June 24, the Cornwall Historical Society’s major 2011 exhibit, Care to Cure: Medicine in the Era of Dr. W.B. Walker, 1923-1978, opens with an evening reception, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 7 Pine St.

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Betty Spence of Cornwall sent photos of a bear that “visited my property in broad daylight. I first saw it out front at about noon. I yelled at it and it headed behind my house toward the swamp. It circled my property’s periphery and, munching shrubbery, moved slowly up on the other side. Then it plopped down beside a tree, closed its eyes and took a little nap! When it woke up a few minutes later, it sniffed in several directions and seemed to enjoy the sun. The bear’s size makes me think either that it’s young or female. There’s rarely a dull moment in the wilds of Cornwall!” she said.

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CORNWALL — At www.cornwallct.org visitors can find a user-friendly, information-rich, well-linked website. From zoning regulations to citizen profiles, it is comprehensive.
It is not a town-run site, but an independent undertaking by a dedicated committee of volunteers. Its minimal cost is covered by the Cornwall Foundation.
“We’re a .org, not a .gov,” committee member Norma Lake said.
A number of committee members came to the June 6 Board of Selectmen meeting to seek support toward improving the site.

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CORNWALL — The Cornwall Historical Society’s exhibit and Talk and Tea gatherings will take a very specific theme this summer.
It begins with the June 25 open house tour of Dr. Walker’s home office, 10 a.m. to noon, at the society museum at 19 Pine St., as part of Care to Cure: Medicine in the Era of Dr. W. B. Walker, 1923 to 1978.
The years of Walker’s practice as Cornwall’s town doctor saw dramatic changes in transportation, medical treatment and health insurance that combined to permanently alter small-town medicine and led to the more specialized practices we know today.

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CORNWALL — It wasn’t luck but talent — and practice — that earned the Cornwall Consolidated School Band and Chorus three trophies at the Music in the Parks Competition May 13.
Yes, it was Friday the 13th when the 34 students in grade five through eight traveled to Holyoke, Mass., to compete against middle school and junior high school groups from around the region.
The chorus performed at a Congregational church, and the band performed at Holyoke High School. Then it was off to Six Flags New England for the awards ceremony.

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CORNWALL — The recently formed Economic Development Study Group has decided that the town does indeed require an economic development commission.
The eight members of the study group signed and sent a petition to the Board of Selectmen May 12. It was reviewed at the June 7 board meeting, where the request to put the plan to a public vote was unanimously accepted. It is expected to be on the agenda of the annual town meeting this fall.
Cornwall has never had an economic development commission, according to First Selectman Gordon Ridgway.

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CORNWALL — A local family’s effort to maintain their outdoor wood-burning furnace (OWF) has met with legal resistance. Their proposal to make prescribed modifications, and limit use to the heating season, was denied by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after it was discovered it violates local zoning laws. The furnace is shut down.

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CORNWALL — The model is there: a real general store that offers customers all of the essentials. As customers-turned-owners of the newly named Cornwall General Store, Dana and Louise Beecher believe perspective is what is needed to make the business a success.
A lack of experience is not getting in the way of their enthusiasm and confidence. The couple, along with a slightly revamped team, officially takes over the former Baird’s on June 13. But they are already running the Cornwall Bridge village landmark until 3 p.m. every day.

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The 2011 Cornwall Library Garden Tour will take place on Saturday, June 18, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., beginning at the Cornwall Library on Pine Street. A cocktail party will follow, from 5 to 7 p.m., at a barn in north Cornwall. Tickets for the tour are $25. The tour and cocktail party is $50 per person or $80 for two. For more information, call the library at 860-672-6874.

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